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Look into the distance

Search high and low for hope



Look into the distance, all you will see is smog

And search through your memories, now clouded by thick fog

Search through those memories, and long for an image of love

Continue to wait in hope, for a peace driven dove



Wake up from your daze still stuck in a trench

Surrounded, waste deep in a filthy pool of wretch

Dig deep for some courage,there will not be much there

You didn’t sign up for this,how can it be fair?





Look to your left, or gaze to your right

Surrounded by lifeless soldiers

How long can you continue to fight?





Grenades fall like an unnoticed raindrop

Aroun you, wounded soldiers continue to flop

Limbs are lost like thoughts

As the enemy surrounds from the distance, like thousands of tiny dots




You worry about your family, or a longtime friend

“How are your wife and parents?” or “can my little girl walk yet?”

The thoughts persist in your head

When wil the death and despair end?




Soon you find a bullet, burrowed in your chest

Your mind will soon be put at rest

As you sit in a pool of blood, and try to go to the light

This is the brightest day you have seen, after a long, grim fight



You have visited death and kicked down the door!

You will not have to suffer any more

What else can you expect from the violent destruction of war?